I40 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
secreted was .0446 pound per hour, and when milked three 
times, .056 pound. It will be noticed, however, that in the 
morning, after an interval of 12% hours, the amount of milk 
secreted per hour was 1.041; at 11.00 A.M., after an interval 
of five and three-fourths hours, the amount secreted was 1.23 
pounds; and at 4:45 P.M., after an interval of five and three- 
fourths hours, the amount secreted was 1.12 pounds. Similar 
variations appear in the secretion of fat. At the noon hour 
the percentage increase in the hourly secretion of milk and of 
fat, as compared with the hourly secretion when milked twice 
per day, was 26 per cent. more milk and 66 per cent. more fat. 
The percentage increase in the hourly secretion of fat up to 
the noon hour as compared with the morning hour was 89 per 
cent. more fat, while the secretion of milk was only 18 per 
cent. more. ‘This difference is attributed by the writer to the 
nervous condition of the cow due to the unusual hour of milk- 
ing. ‘The average Babcock test of the cows at noon during the 
five days of Period II. was 7.1 per cent., 6 per cent., 6 per 
cent.,.5.8 per cent., and'5.8 per cent. 
: TABLE 63. . 
Amount of Milk and Fat Secreted per Hour in Pounds. 





PERIOD I. PERIOD II. Milked Three Times. PERIOD III 
aes 5.15 A. M. II A. M. 4.45 P.M. | Average. ee 
Milk, - a an eS I.O41 1423 I. 12 1.10 977 
Batecuc - .0444 .039 074 .053 .056 .0448 








